starring Boris Karloff Anna Lee.
This classic from the Val Lewton stable was inspired by a Hogarth print of the notorious
18th-century asylum, St Mary's of Bethlehem. Boris Karloff plays the sadistic Master Sims , so bent on preserving his niche of power that he arranges to have the troublesome Nell Bowen incarcerated in the asylum to stop her exposing his tyranny. A chilling, superb reconstruction of a hard and pitiless age....
Screenplay by Carlos Keith and Mark Robson Produced by Val Lewton Directed by Mark Robson